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Could you please help me to find some more sources about this topic, because all what i have found is Tacitus Germania
Hello,
actually Tacitus' Germania is our main source about the ancient Germans, since these peoples kept no writing records, and so our only sources are from Roman and Greek writers.
Some informations can be found in Caesar's "De Bello Gallico", Strabo's "Geographica", Pliny the Elder's "Bella Germaniae", Diodorus Siculus' "Bibliotheca Historica", Posidonius' travel chronicles, Aufidius Bassius' "Bellum Germanicum". However, all these sources were used by Tacitus to compile his work, which thus remains the best source we have.
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